XXXVI. Ignored
Terence Higgs was not used to being ignored. For the past two years he had been Slytherin's star Seeker, beloved by every single member of his house – even those who had no interest in Quidditch.
The same people who had once kissed the ground he walked on hadn't bothered to so much as look at him in weeks.
He had lost. He had lost to a Gryffindor. He had lost to a Gryffindor first year. He had lost to a Gryffindor first year who had never heard of Quidditch until a few weeks previously, much less played it. The situation got worse and worse every time he thought about it.
Terence Higgs was not used to being ignored, but he knew that there was nothing he could do about the situation: it was, after all, entirely his own fault. You won and they loved you, you failed and they hated you; that was simply the way life worked in Slytherin house.